Somatic Healing Quotes

“Every thought, feeling, and sensation within your body throughout the day offer you an opportunity to love. Good or bad, whatever you experience is a lesson or a reminder to connect with love.”
― Aletheia Luna, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing

“Depression always brings to mind the possibility that the person's SEEKING system may have been turned off ...

Our mutual trust in his system's wisdom kept us from being swept away by the despair he felt. We began to ask, "what is this depression, this one who is so still, wanting to tell us?" Then we waited.

We stayed with the one who felt dead inside, acknowledging his protective value even when though we had no cognitive awareness of who and what he was sheltering.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“I smiled broadly. " ...This is your body's wisdom speaking to us, sensing when it is safe to go forward, pulling back a bit when it might be too much. You and I are just getting to know one another, so I really respect the caution and protection in your inner world." ...

With visible relaxation in her body and strong eye contact, she said, "All my life people have criticized me for being cautious. It means a lot that you like that I'm that way."
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― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“On reflection now, it seems to me she was already telling me what she needed most--a place to settle in proximity, safety, warmth and quiet because she had none of that as a child.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“Remember it all passes, it all moves and shifts – yes, the entire world – but what remains is the beautiful truth: you are a microscopic aperture through which you, conscious awareness, observe & dance with all that is. Things are falling, yes, but other things are rising. And you, my love, you are all of it. What you experience is yours to feel. Feel it to completeness.”
― Tejal Prettyman, How to Feel: Reprogramming the Body After Trauma

“Sand tray can be an embodied conversation between our inner world and outer awareness, held and witnessed by another. Because of the tactile experiences of the sand and minatures and the symbolic nature of the figures, we have the opportunity to make contact with implicit memories that have no words. We follow our body's guidance in arranging the sand and allowing the minatures to choose us. It is a right-centric process that allows us to let go of meaning-making in favor of following our felt sense and behavioral impulse. Meaning may arrive later, but we at least begin, as best we can, without expectation to give our inner world the most freedom we can.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“Resting is an embodied practice and a lifelong unraveling. It is not something that can be trendy, quick, or shallow.”
― Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

“I was never just meant to crawl. I was always meant to fly.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“My healing lives in my daily choices.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“Growth begins each time we choose nourishment over numbness.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“Most feel the discomfort—but rush to silence it instead of learning from it.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“What is real will remain.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“I am allowed to simply be. That is enough.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling